ALL meanings of hijack
hi·jack
H h - noun hijack Illegally seize (an aircraft, ship, or vehicle) in transit and force it to go to a different destination or use it for one's own purposes. 1
- noun hijack armed seizure of sth 1
- noun hijack appropriation of sth 1
- transitive verb hijack seize control of: a vehicle 1
- transitive verb hijack steal: cargo from a vehicle 1
- transitive verb hijack appropriate sth 1
- transitive verb hijack take over: a conversation 1
- verb with object hijack to steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop: to hijack a load of whiskey. 1
- verb with object hijack to rob (a vehicle) after forcing it to stop: They hijacked the truck before it entered the city. 1
- verb with object hijack to seize (a vehicle) by force or threat of force. 1
- verb with object hijack to skyjack. 1
- verb without object hijack to engage in such stealing or seizing. 1
- noun hijack an act or instance or hijacking. 1
- noun hijack An instance of hijacking; the illegal seizure of a vehicle. 0
- noun hijack An instance of a seizure and redirection of a process. 0
- noun hijack (politics) An amendment which deletes the contents of a bill and inserts entirely new provisions. 0
- noun hijack (poker slang) Preflop, the position two before the dealer. 0
- verb hijack To forcibly stop and seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat). 0
- verb hijack To seize control of some process or resource to achieve a purpose other than its originally intended one. 0
- verb hijack (computing) To seize control of a networked computer by means of infecting it with a worm or other malware, thereby turning it into a zombie. 0
- verb hijack (computing) To change software settings without a user's knowledge so as to force that user to visit a certain web site (to hijack a browser). 0
- verb hijack (politics) To introduce an amendment deleting the contents of a bill and inserting entirely new provisions. 0
- verb hijack If someone hijacks a plane or other vehicle, they illegally take control of it by force while it is travelling from one place to another. 0
- verb hijack Hijack is also a noun. 0
- verb hijack If you say that someone has hijacked something, you disapprove of the way in which they have taken control of it when they had no right to do so. 0
- verb hijack to seize, divert, or appropriate (a vehicle or the goods it carries) while in transit 0
- verb hijack to rob (a person or vehicle) by force 0
- verb hijack (esp in the US during Prohibition) to rob (a bootlegger or smuggler) of his illicit goods or to steal (illicit goods) in transit 0
- noun hijack the act or an instance of hijacking 0
- verb transitive hijack to steal (goods in transit, a truck and its contents, etc.) by force 0
- verb transitive hijack to steal such goods from (a person) by force 0
- verb transitive hijack to cheat, swindle, etc. by or as by the use of force 0
- verb transitive hijack to seize control forcibly of (an aircraft, bus, ship, etc.), esp. in order to go to a nonscheduled destination 0